Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Newark, DE
Submitted on: 29-Apr-03
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The corporate culture at AMDOC was dynamic to say the least. Most of
the permanent employees are young and ambitious with strong technical
skills and client focus. The downside is that the company must hire
project staff (temp, contractors) to work on various projects as needed.
These employees were often unmotivated by nature and less than motivated
once the realized that their tenure would be short, without benefits or
any future. The staff was fairly diverse at the staff level by
management and above was decidedly white and often Republican. Normal
hours except when project work required additional time. Not too
onerous at any point. The project staff were permitted to dress
casually except if a client was coming in (that always seems so fake to
me-everyone knows 99% of the US is casual now) The management staff was
permitted to dress fairly casually but jeans were not permitted except
on Friday.
The opportunities for advancement were available to some people.
However, the companies success definitely has peaks and values. At one
point when the company lost a large client, they downsized office space
by greater than 1/2 and layed off 1/2 of the workforce. The layoff was
down in a meritocracy format with old timers getting their pink slip
along with newer folks. I was fortunate to keep my job but it was like
being sent to a random firing squad or worse yet, being voted off
American Idol..if you stayed in your office that day you are "safe" if
you were sent to the conference room then you were let go. It was a
conference room full of also-ran Justin Guarini's.
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